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Noble Lords will remember the example my noble friend Lord Agnew gave in Committee of a primary school in the Inspiration Trust in Norwich, Charles Darwin Primary, which, if I remember rightly, is one of a small handful of primary schools in Norwich— I think it was three out of 24 schools—that reach above the national average for reading, writing and maths when children finish. That school has already been warned that it will have to halve its pupil numbers. Surely the answer is not to halve the size of one of those few good schools.